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title: Where did the volunteer nip off to the next night? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes o… · tree and pragmatics
description: Where did the volunteer nip off to the next night? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 839 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 50: the watchman's soul visits the moon, then a volunteer's head sticks in the hospital railings» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree 
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# Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 50:…

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Where did the volunteer nip off to the next night?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do off · **To what, where:** volunteer nip

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 839 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 50: the watchman's soul visits the moon, then a volunteer's head sticks in the hospital railings» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/839-pg27200-part50/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:839-pg27200-part50:t8:1
# text = Where did the volunteer nip off to the next night?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	2	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	volunteer	volunteer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	nip	nip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do off** | past |  | the volunteer nip |  |  | night |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nip=Eventuality |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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To the amateur theatre

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:839-pg27200-part50:t8:o1:1
# text = To the amateur theatre
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	amateur	amateur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	theatre	theatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
To the old church hall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:839-pg27200-part50:t8:o2:1
# text = To the old church hall
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To a crowded amateur theatre across the square to watch the show

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:839-pg27200-part50:t8:o3:1
# text = To a crowded amateur theatre across the square to watch the show
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	crowded	crowded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	amateur	amateur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	theatre	theatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	across	across	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | to-infinitive |  | the show |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent show=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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To the amateur theatre for a performance of a play about the moon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:839-pg27200-part50:t8:o4:1
# text = To the amateur theatre for a performance of a play about the moon
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	amateur	amateur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	theatre	theatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	performance	performance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perform** |  |  | a play about the moon |  |  |  |  | nom performance «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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